"mindset" caught on video

[jlw]

Link launches a player. (http://bcove.me/txhfi89u)


Finally, "mindset" caught on video in the wild.

[feudist]

Cat was being a badass for its' own sake.:cool:

[Casual Friday]

Sooo, does this mean internet commandos are gonna start calling themselves "house cats" instead of "sheep dogs"?

[Tamara]

Gray tabby don't care.

[PT Doc]

Not a single kitten was given.

[ford.304]

Sooo, does this mean internet commandos are gonna start calling themselves "house cats" instead of "sheep dogs"?

http://www.corneredcat.com/

The house cat's reputation is already well established on the internet.

[Robert Mitchum]

http://www.utrend.tv/v/cat-dog/

Felidae

[justintime]

I see the honey badger has taken up a new disguise

[Tamara]

http://www.utrend.tv/v/cat-dog/

Felidae

I love that video. Dogs are such sympathetic characters and, being pack hunters, their body language is much more easily deciphered than that of cats is.

"Mom! Dad! There's a Thing on the stairs! It's right there! Look! It's looking at me! Make it stop!" :D

[NickA]

We watched some "Top 10 Deadliest Cats" show a while back, and #1 was the house cat. Apparently even a well fed cat will kill all the animals if given a chance.

[Byron]

Apparently even a well fed cat will kill all the animals if given a chance.
Yep.

Infographic from The Oatmeal: How much do cats actually kill? (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill)

[BaiHu]

Awesome link Byron.

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[feudist]

Yep.

Infographic from The Oatmeal: How much do cats actually kill? (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill)

My mine had the Apex predator cat.

He routinely killed adult squirrels.

I saw him leap from the roof of a shed and kill a bird coming in for a landing.

I told my mom and she said he did that routinely.

Nothing that walked, crawled, burrowed or flew was safe from him.

My family has always had cats, but I've never seen one with the sheer musteline bloodlust of this one.

RIP,
Joey, the Slayer.

[JMorse]

Now we know why the dogs are afraid to pass them on stairs.

[Tamara]

Yep.

Infographic from The Oatmeal: How much do cats actually kill? (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill)

Great link.

I have this one (http://www.theonion.com/articles/kitten-thinks-of-nothing-but-murder-all-day,9783/) on a tee shirt. :D

[Robinson]

Now we know why the dogs are afraid to pass them on stairs.

I've seen cats push the wrong dog just a little too far and pay a terrible price. Still, cats are the real killers.

[Drang]

My family has always had cats, but I've never seen one with the sheer musteline bloodlust of this one.

RIP,
Joey, the Slayer.

My buddy Ratbane earned his name hunting Al Qaeda rats at the WAANG Armory up the street, while the 81st Brigade was in the Sandbox.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4tk8IptEJw8/UdtXug9tTfI/AAAAAAAAD30/7qLUrsxmv34/s640/IMG_20130708_140506_384.jpg
RIP, buddy. I miss him. I think Sparrowbane and and The Princess do, too.

[Robert Mitchum]

I love that video. Dogs are such sympathetic characters and, being pack hunters, their body language is much more easily deciphered than that of cats is.

"Mom! Dad! There's a Thing on the stairs! It's right there! Look! It's looking at me! Make it stop!" :D


I feel bad for the dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gyswOlHUoY

[JAD]

I feel bad for the sectional.

[RoyGBiv]

Yep.

Infographic from The Oatmeal: How much do cats actually kill? (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill)

Before the kids were born we lived in the woods and had 2 cats. One cat was huge and slow, the other cat tiny (maybe 7-8 pounds) and mean... Joe Pesci in Goodfellas mean. Nice one second and hooked to your face the next mean. Between laying in wait under the bird feeders harvesting Grosbeaks by day and chasing 'coons off the back porch at night, mean kitty discovered a game. The game was: "Bring it home alive and chase it around inside the house". At night. Flying squirrels at 3:AM was always fun, but not quite as much action as gecko's at 02:00. Two most memorable were the bird that scared the crap outta me opening the front door late one night (took me days to get all the blood off the popcorn ceiling :mad:) and the pies de resistance, when mean kitty brought my visiting mom (the woman is built from 1,000% City-stock) a freshly-dead rabbit and mom shrieked like a little girl being chased by a boy with a booger on his finger.

Oh.... and then there was the beaver "cornered" under the deck.... Although I don't think it was mean kitties doing that the beaver was there, we did have to bring mean kitty inside before the beaver would leave.

[john556]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/video-cat-fights-back-after-2936279

Holy kitten.

[Clyde from Carolina]

Awesome link Byron.

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Absolutely, very cool.

[Robert Mitchum]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COkumQuCibU

[Tamara]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/video-cat-fights-back-after-2936279

Holy kitten.

Her whole body language when she was kicking snow on it had me cheering for the cat. Best part was after she ran inside, the way the cat came right up to the fence with that "How 'bout you? You want some of this, too?" look. Rover was like "Noooope."

[JodyH]

10 years ago I had a little adopted stray cat, she was maybe 5#
She somehow managed to drag a live full grown jackrabbit through two separate pet doors that were about 6"x6".
The rabbit alone barely squeezed through the door. I have no idea how she accomplished it.

[jlw]

I am not a lover of cats. I don't even like them; not a little bit. Growing up on a farm, however, cats were a fact of life, and sometimes one would actually work its way up to likable status. We had a one-eyed female named "Hazel" that lived to be at least 17. She would disappear and live in the wild for months on end, then she would come home and play domestic cat until she got bored again. I know she wasn't cheating on us with a secret family on the other side of town as I would see her out and about in the wild with no houses anywhere near.

Her son was "C.T." which was short for "Confounded Thing", a name given to him after a certain act he committed. He too would sometimes come back around and whip anything that dared cross him including one dog that he dang near killed, but mostly he lived in the wild. The last time he came to check up on things, he was 12. He met his end when some night hunters out shining shot at a pair of eyes in the dark, and when they went to see what they shot, they found "C.T." That was two miles from the farm.

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Now for the funny visual:

There was a T.V. show that filmed nearby (I'll Fly Away). The sister of a friend was one of the set people (whose daughter was quite attractive which may or may not have been pivotal in my decision to comply). They needed a cat for a scene, and they called and asked if I could bring one. I went down to the barn and picked what was usually a very friendly cat. I put her in a cardboard box, got in the truck, and started for down. I got partway down the driveway before she dismantled the box and started not only on me but on the interior of my truck as well. I bailed out and she followed.

I had to call them back and tell them to con somebody else into bringing them a cat.

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There is a story with a funnier visual, but text won't do it justice. It even has a sequel thats funnier.

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Finally, when working for the local vet, we sometimes boarded a cat named "Dusky". It was important to wash your hands prior to opening his cage. If you remembered to do so, he was rather docile. If not, the smell of another animal on your hands would launch him into a fury.

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In short, I don't care much for cats.

[jlw]

And then there is this:


https://scontent-a-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1491685_430517363740650_440016532_n.jpg

[LSP552]

My best bud Louie is a 17 lb. Maine Coon/Siamese mix man-cat. He is completely fearless and it amazing how much power and speed a big cat has.

Ken

[JAD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COkumQuCibU

Can't breathe, holding the sides of the desk funny. That guy violated the cat-to-sack safety ratio.

[JMorse]

Can't breathe, holding the sides of the desk funny. That guy violated the cat-to-sack safety ratio.

I'm pretty sure Pinky didn't get adopted.

[TheTrevor]

Can't breathe, holding the sides of the desk funny. That guy violated the cat-to-sack safety ratio.

Right there with you. I'm going to declare Pinky the uncontested winner of that match.

[RBid]

Loved the links.

Years ago, my grandmother had a big, mean female cat called "Dumbdumb". The original name had been something else, but Dumbdumb tried to fight an idling car at some point, and an on the spot dub stuck forever. That incident turned out to be foreshadowing. I have no idea what was wrong with that cat, but she was clearly not right. She fought anything that wasn't native-- she left the dog and the family alone, but she would go Drunk Snookie on any first timers and all of the animals on the block.

Dumbdumb's death was all at once shocking and kind of predictable. A bunch of us were tossing a football in front of the house on Thanksgiving, and grandma walked out to the sidewalk to chat. As a car made it's way toward grandma, Dumbdumb seemed to materialize out of nowhere, rushed out in front of the car, and stopped to square off with the right front tire, just in time to get run over.

[Tamara]

And then there is this:


https://scontent-a-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1491685_430517363740650_440016532_n.jpg

I have known maybe two dudes in my life who could successfully make those trousers work. One of them was the kind of guy who could saunter into a black tie affair wearing a dangling plastic skeleton earring, the kind you get out of a gumball machine, and not have anybody even bat an eye.